Note corrected directions...

This Event:
	Wed	10/11	Green Elephant Gourmet, Burmese, Palo Alto

Coming Events:
	Wed	10/11	Green Elephant Gourmet, Burmese, Palo Alto
	Wed	10/18	Sultana Turkish, Menlo Park

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Time:	7:45pm

Place:
	Green Elephant Gourmet
	3950 Middlefield Rd.
	Palo Alto
	650-494-7391

Description:

Green Elephant is a Chinese/Burmese restaurant.
Many of the dishes are familiar Chinese, tending to spicy.
The Burmese dishes include a number of curries, seafood such as 
salt&pepper prawn, coconut (a coconut-chicken soup, coconut rice, etc.),
tea leaf salad, ginger salad, several mango dishes, appetizers.

Kabuki had never been to Green Elephant - so far our only Burmese
restaurant has been Nan Yang in Berkeley/Oakland, so we went there 10/11/06.
Overall, we weren't thrilled - there were a few outstanding dishes,
but most of the rest was average at best.
It's worth making a trip here just for the tea leaf salad -
it's at least as good as Nan Yang's, and larger.
The samosas were pleasant, and the Green Curry Beef or Pork was good.
The Poodi potato curry was similar enough to the other curry
that you don't need to order both except for veggie/carnivore balance.
Orange beef was ok, and the broccoli provided some balance to the rest
of the dishes.  I think we also had a coconut chicken soup.
The Mango Chicken was bland and flavorless.

Directions:
Green Elephant is in Charleston Shopping Center at Middlefield & Charleston.
There's a Piazza grocery store in the middle, and Green Elephant
and an ice cream place are in the building on the left-hand end.

From 101:  Take 101 to San Antonio Exit south towards Los Altos
Turn right at Middlefield light, drive a few blocks.
Shopping center will be on the left.